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12/21/2025

Recently there was a video game released that my dad took me (16f) to pick up during his custody time. When I went to my mom's the week after it's release I was jumped on by my stepsister (15f) and my mom for not picking her up a copy while I was out. I did know she wanted to play the game but I didn't think of getting her a copy since we're not close. My mom said knowing she is asthmatic and diabetic I should have done something nice when currently it's not a good idea for her to go out too much, especially in crowds. The only reason they know is my dad posted a selfie of us getting the game (he plays too and was also excited about the game). I told them it wasn't my job to think of her while I'm with my dad. My mom said she's disappointed in me and she knows we're not friends but at least I could try to have a familial relationship with her and that would have been a kind gesture to make. AITA?

12/21/2025

So my mom has had a very crazy love life since I was born. She has been married 5 times (currently married to #5) and each marriage ended with her leaving one man and moving in with another. This really affected me as a child as I never really had a stable father figures growing up. Anyways I went through a divorce myself (first one). I moved out of the house I shared and bought a home on my own. Right after I moved into the house my mom called me telling me how excited she is to come visit me and that she can't wait. She then explained to me that one of her high school girlfriends owns a house 5 hours north of me and she just wanted to get away on a girls trip to relax a little on her way to visit me. I was actually pretty excited for this as I hadnt seen my mom in almost a year and with my pending divorce, its nice to have family close by (I'm military and live in another city). So my mom has a bad history of lying to me. When she left her 4th husband she went on a dating spree and slept with a lot of guys and lied to me about a lot of things regarding her divorce and telling me her ex-husband was abusive (in reality I think he was just boring for her and she moved on, not a big deal imo). So as we get closer to her visit the details she's giving me about her "girlfriend" isn't jiving. My mom grew up in a very poor neighborhood and yet her gf lived in a resort like town in a mansion (shes not married or anything). So I got with my sister in law who is a PI on the side and she did a little research and found out one of my mom's ex lovers lived in this resort town in a mansion.... So I let the trip happen without saying a word to my mom. She only stayed with me for one night, then spent the next 5 nights with her "girlfriend". All while her husband was at home working away at his job. A couple weeks went by and the situation really didn't sit well with me so I decided to call her up and confront her with my theory. I know my mom well enough that I know when she's lying most of the time. My mom froze for about 20 seconds when I divulged all of the information my sister in law and I found about her ex lover. I then impressed upon her the importance of honesty with me and that it's hard for me to be close to someone, even my mother when she lies to me. So my mom FINALLY admitted to visiting this ex lover of hers but insists that he is married and she was just hanging with him and his wife for a week... I told her that she's a liar and that situations like this are why she's been married 5 times and probably working on 6. My mom broke down crying (she does this a lot when I call her on her b__lsh*t) and eventually hung up the phone. I then had family members and friends calling me up and telling me what an a__hole I am for doing that and as her son, I should just support whatever decisions she makes. AITA for this? Edit: Thank for the DMs letting me know my mom is a w***e. I really appreciate it!

12/21/2025

Some years ago, when I was living in another country, I was assigned the phone number (landline) of someone who had been evading creditors for years. The phone company had a policy of waiting somewhere between 6 months and 1 year before recycling numbers, I can't remember exactly, so you'd think the creditors would have figured it out during the months when they got an error message. I got something like 20 calls a day, starting at 8 am, and at first I tried to explain nicely that the number had been reassigned, but they kept calling and leaving messages. Exactly like in your case, I would get questioned about the woman's whereabouts and new phone number or asked to give her various messages. I would get screamed at for "refusing" to provide information. Fortunately, since it was a landline, I missed a lot of these calls while out, but the 8 am wake-up calls really pi**ed me off (I was doing my master's and teaching at the same time, and all my classes were in the afternoon/evening, so I was home most mornings). After a couple of months, I went through my phone statements, made a list of all the calls, and tried to talk to the phone company first. They didn't help at all. So I filed a police report, because I'd asked repeatedly to be taken out of their database and they hadn't complied, which was against the law in that particular country. Obviously, the police didn't do anything, but next time I got a call, I told them about the report and gave them the registration number. Calls magically stopped. I'm guessing it wasn't the first time someone had done that and maybe they were afraid yet another report would be the last straw. But while they were obviously as****es, I have no doubt "Anna" also kept providing her old number.

12/21/2025

My son started sixth-grade and has "Roman" in four of his six classes. He and Roman have never liked each other and me and his parents have tried a few times to get them to be friends to no avail. They sorta hangout with the same crowd and we never wanted either kid to feel excluded because the other didn't want the other over with the other crowd. They played baseball during PE. Baseball is Roman's sport and not my son's. Supposedly it was a tied game, bases were loaded and my son got stuck out (by the coach). Roman had a fit and blamed my son and my son was already frustrated and annoyed at being pecked at by Roman. The next class (English), Roman and my son got stuck on a group project. Roman said something to the effect of "Kyle - how come you suck so much at sports?" in front of their friends. He said he doesn't suck at sports - he just hates baseball. At lunch, my son went to go sit with his friends (who also sit with Roman) and Roman told my son he couldn't sit with them. They got into a beef over it and their friends got uncomfortable. In their next class (math), Roman asked him again (laughing) why he sucked at sports. A few people laughed. So my son asked "Roman, why are you so fat?" MORE kids who heard the comment laughed. The teacher sent them to the office and I got the call from the VP. The VP said they were going to separate them and tell them to keep away from each other. He told me the "fat" comment was a bullying comment and I told him that I was literally shrugging over it. I told him I don't have the time to discuss the spectrum of bullying with him, but at the very least, it went both ways. I asked him that just because my son is this sweet, likable kid who doesn't cause problems that he shouldn't think that he doesn't have his boundaries. He, like anyone, will hit back. That's just people being people. I promised him that Roman, who I've known since pre-K, will think twice before talking s__t to my son again and to me the issue is dead. The VP just went on about how it needs to be taken seriously (the "fat") comment and how his mom was almost in tears. I told him Roman isn't even fat. He's has baby fat. Roman just didn't like the taste of his own medicine and I say that with love. He said that now I wasn't taking it seriously and I sarcastically said I would bring up at the NATO meeting.

12/21/2025

My roommate (we're both 20sM) is a devoted Muslim from Indonesia. He's pretty chill to be with because he doesn't force anything on me. Our apartment is pretty divided since we both have our own spaces. He's one of the best roommates that I've ever had since he respects boundaries, is cool with me being bisexual, has no problems with me eating meat, and I can even properly talk to him about controversial topics without getting into arguments. Overall, my dude's pretty cool. The problem started when a few of my friends wanted to have a get-together. We usually rotate between places and this time, they decided that it was my turn to host. The thing is, my friends are all extremelyflamboyant g**s and parties very hard. Every time we have a gathering, they're most likely to get extremely trashed. Not to mention, most of their topics and the things they do when drunk are NSFW. And so, I refused. I thought about my roommate and how this would greatly disturb and be unfair to him. He doesn't have any family here and our apartment is the only place where he can stay. I told them my reasoning and suggested another place. As expected, they got angry at me, not because I refused but because of the reason why. They told me that I was "enabling" him and his "sick and twisted" beliefs and that I was probably "being indoctrinated". I snapped at their horrible accusations at me and my roommate since the man has been nothing but good to me since he we first met. The things they said were more than enough to make anyone cry. I blew up at them and called them horrible people for judging him and for calling him terrible names. I walked out and they've been blowing up my phone ever since. My roommate was thankful that I thought of him but he was guilty that I had to sacrifice my friends just to accommodate him. AITA?

12/21/2025

I (F25) was over my sister (F28) and her husband’s (M28) place for dinner. They made dinner and I said it was so good and joked I should come for dinner more often because it’s so good. He immediately said in a serious tone “next time you should help cook or give money for ingredients.” and then my sister nodded in agreement. I thought it was a weird comment and I felt unwelcome. I rarely come over so it’s not like I’m taking advantage. Their kitchen is small so I feel like I’d get in the way but I guess I could help next time. The money part felt weird though. They aren’t struggling financially, his family is extremely wealthy. I’ve bought them food before and didn’t ask anything in return. Edit for more details: I’ve only been over for dinner once before in the past year and both times i was spontaneously invited by my sister. They more often come to my or my parents house and never bring anything so I didn’t think it was expected I guess. They’ve also tried to get me to pay for them when we go out places a lot even though I prefer to just pay for myself and I never try to make them pay for me.

12/21/2025

TL/DR My mother went around telling my in laws to plan for their mothers funeral, denied it and said I am a horrible son for not backing her up afterwards. This just happened last night. A little back story is my mother in law of 18 years suffered a stroke on the 8th of June. She’s been in the hospital since and has started showing signs of improvement the last few days. My mother thought it would be a good idea to travel down to my sister in laws house to help out with my nephew and niece while my sister in law goes to the hospital for visitation and updates from the medical staff. So here is where I was literally called an a__hole by my mother. Before she traveled to my SIL’s home, I asked and begged her not to b__t in with medical decisions that are made, she and I are in no position to make such decisions because that is up to her kids (my wife, SIL and BIL). She promised that she will only be there for support and sending positive energy at any given cost. So yesterday we get a call that my mother had went on a verbal diarrhea tirade telling family members to start preparing for a funeral, that she is going to pass at any given day, even went as far to tell my wife’s family that my wife is denying me the option to drive to Los Angeles, which isn’t true. We are saving money to drive and I’m even taking a loan from my 401k to drive out there. I went off on her for running around telling people to expect the worst when she is clearly showing signs of improvement day by day. I was basically called the worst son, because I didn’t have my mothers back, she denied ever saying it, even though I heard it from 3 different people. I told her she’s a grown woman and needs to own up to what she did and bringing people’s morale down during such a hard time. So am I the a__hole here?

12/21/2025

I (26f) have been married to my husband (26m) for 4 years. We have a 2 year old son and I'm pregnant with another. My in-laws periodically give us old stuff they don't want, without letting us choose whether we want the stuff. Cabinets, entertainment centers, TVs, home decor, etc. They don't take no for an answer, and usually guilt trip us about how special the junk is to them. So we end up sacrificing the time and labor to haul and get rid of everything for them. It's exhausting. To make it worse, FIL always gets offended when we throw out or give away the stuff he gives us. Right now we are still trying to get rid of some very large furniture pieces they gave us. They've been sitting in a spare room in our house, but now we're turning that room into a nursery for baby on the way. I feel pretty o__rwhelmed with the amount of their stuff we need to get rid of (donation centers here are locked down due to COVID). I include this because it's a big reason why I lost my temper. Last week we went to see the in-laws and FIL had decided to give us two live goldfish. They have an aquarium and the goldfish were k__ling the other fish, so of course that means WE want the fish! We don't have or want a fish tank. FIL went on and on about how it would be so enriching for our son. We kept saying, extremely clearly, that NO, we don't want the fish, but he wouldn't let it go. After 10ish minutes debating, I lost my patience and said, "FIL, we are not a dump!" FIL looked visibly hurt. He did finally back down. Ever since then, he's made passive-aggressive comments to my husband (DH offered him homemade bread, and he said, "Oh, so I'm a dump now? etc). FIL is an extremely sensitive man and known for holding grudges for years. I know I'm going to be paying for that comment forever. So level with me. How rude was I? AITA? tldr: In-laws always give us junk we don't want and don't take no for an answer. I was very rude to my FIL for insisting on giving us live fish. I don't know if I was justified.

12/21/2025

My MIL hates me to the point she would rather be low contact with her son and have no relationship with her grandchild. She talks so much s*it about me behind my back for keeping my own name, for going to school for the same thing she did and not making anything of it (honestly she has my dream job and loves to rub it in), for not taking care of her son, etc. We adopted a baby boy three years ago, and she was very cold. I asked her if she was excited and she said it wasn't her child, why would she be excited. She does not buy gifts or babysit, because she might have to follow some rules. She kept maintaining that she just doesn't like kids. Well that all changed when her daughter got pregnant. Her daughter literally gives zero f***s and MIL can do whatever she want. Also she is close to her son in law. The kids are two and three now and the favoritism is so obvious, that we have really drawn back. Well i felt like the big elephant in the room was that my son is adopted and her daughter's child is her bio granddaughter. I did confide to some people that I thought the adoption might have something to do with it. Well she called me up screaming at me, that how dare i tell people she is ignoring him because he is adopted, because she is adopted as well. She knew I was going to call her a liar, so she texted me a picture of her birth certificate, and she was telling the truth. I guess her bio dad was abusive so her stepmom took her and later married another man, and they raised her as their own, none of which she ever told me. Now MIL's dad is texting my husband that we are attention w***es, because he never had to flaunt that he had an adopted child, and maybe we should 'give the kid back' until we grow up and he told us to 'leave his daughter the f*ck alone' I feel like this is more her fault, because she never shared any of this. Edit: Some people are confused, but she never met her bio mom. It was her dad's wife who took her from her dad, and then she remarried, so neither bio parent was involved past the age of four.

12/21/2025

So I am the events chair of my fraternity for the semester and I planned out a Halloween party that happened yesterday. At the party we typically have a huge costume contest. You pay 5 dollars to enter and if you win, you win the pot. We usually pull about 30 to 50 entries. So the prize is pretty nice. This year we had 40 people enter and about 160 people attending. In years past, the winner has been this one specific chick That my brothers wanna f__k. Her costume is usually the typical sorority girl costume (an animal of some kind, boots, fishnet leggings, a short skirt, basically a bra or corset, and then animal ears and light face paint). Now I'm not a Halloween n**i. This year my costume was literally just a angel wings, and white shorts, and a halo. I know fully that I'm dressing up so hot guys that think I'm hot will take notice and that it's not a 'good costume'. Her costume isn't good. Sure, she looks good in it. But the point of the party is who has the best breasts So we have the contest, and she's wearing her MO. She was a bee, but her ass was hanging out and her b***s were about to fall out of her shirt. So we held the contest, people voted anonymously, and guess what. She won. But by one vote. I hadn't voted yet, so I simply casted my vote then my vice chairman, who agreed with me casted his vote. That just happened to be enough to put her at second place. When I told my by brothers they bi***ed and moaned about it, but I told them she simply didn't win and she should do better next year. They eventually talked me into creating a runner up prize of 50 dollars to the girl. When we announced the winner, she was visibly upset. This was the first time she hasn't won in the last 4 years. Now apparently, last night one of my brothers was simping hard and told her that I intentionally voted against her because I didn't like her (not true, I'm genuinely apathetic about her). She found me later that night and cursed me out and said I had a problem with her. I told her simply that we weren't having a sluttiest costume contest, but a best costume contest and that she's lucky we bent the rules to give her 50 bucks. We argued and ended up getting separated. Now a lot of my brothers are pi**ed at me for pi***ng her off.

12/21/2025

We have a coworker who came back in for the first day since losing her daughter. Everyone told her how glad we were to see her back and how sorry we were. At lunch people were sharing stories about how they overcame grief of immediate family (no one else had lost a kid but, like, spouses, siblings, and parents.) At some point the coworker said (abridged) losing my daughter just feels so different than when I lost my dad and was telling her story. Then another coworker chimes in that she understands exactly what this woman is going through losing her daughter because she just lost her dog and her dog had been like a child to her and she would probably never have kids so it was the closest she'd ever come and how difficult it was and how sudden... I cut in and said 'Losing a dog is not like losing a kid. This isn't a good time to be telling this story. Read the room.' And she said the dog was like a child to her and was her fur baby talked about all the sacrifices she made for it and how close they were and I told her she was being immature and inappropriate and capped it off with 'a dog is fine and it's not easy to lose a pet but it is not comparable to losing a human child and you need to stop.' A few other coworkers nodded in agreement and the grieving mother was uncomfortable and quickly finished her lunch and left. Later someone told me the coworker I went off on about the dog is infertile and I really hurt her feelings telling her the loss of her fur baby was not as significant as the coworker's and I should apologize. I don't know if there's now another layer to this that I didn't understand before and I'm an a__hole now. I'm... I just feel bad all directions. Should I have kept my mouth shut? AITA?

12/20/2025

I (37M) have a daughter Lizzie (F9) with Lori (F38) 50/50 custody. Lori also has 2 sons (M12, M14). We decided I would not pay child support, but I would let them move into a house I own rent-free. I own multiple rental properties. Back 9 years ago the house (4BR/3.5BA) was renting for about $1700.00 a month. Property prices have gone up a lot since then and a similar house I own rents for $2200.00. Lori decided she didn't like our arrangement anymore. She believed she would get more in child support than what renting the house would cost. I told her she was getting a good deal, but she was certain she was right and I couldn't convince her otherwise. She started treating me like I was some kind of deadbeat or con artist. There were other things as well that showed how we had gone from being good co-parents to not getting along at all and honestly don't know why. The courts finally opened and she hired a lawyer. Well the order from the court came down and I do have to pay child support - $150.00 a week, otherwise known as around $650.00 a month not even a third what she had been getting in free rent. Lori was livid. It came out that her sister (who is living with her now) convinced her that since I had properties I was obviously making a ton of money and she should cash in on that. Well, that's not how it works. Yes, I get a good amount of money every month in rent but all that money goes for paying off the mortgages, property taxes, insurance and upkeep. I'm not pulling any money out. I live entirely off of my salary as a mechanic and my taxes prove that. I seriously considered telling Lori she owed me $2200.00 a month in rent but there is no way she could afford it and I like having Lizzie close. The child support was being taken out of my check automatically, so I told Lori that she owed me $651.00 a month in rent (okay I couldn't resist being a tiny bit petty). Lori refuses to pay me. She is basically daring me to evict her. I honestly do not want her to move, but I refuse to be made into a chump which is what is happening now. I sent the certified letter stating that she had 30 days to move. Right now that is an empty threat as the courts aren't processing evictions. But that should be changing shortly for anything not COVID related. I am telling her that for every month she doesn't pay, the rent I want is going up $100.00. So if she pays me this month - $651.00. If she waits until Dec it goes up to $751.00, and so on. Lori does have a job and based on her earnings she can afford to rent someplace else but it would not be in nearly as nice as what she has now. So my daughter would not end up homeless, but it would be a downgrade. I don't see any option other than letting Lori play me for a fool, which I'm not willing to do. But it feels so weird to think about kicking them out. AITA? Edit: This has come up multiple times so I want to address it here. I am not going to sue for full custody of Lizzie. Lori is very much trying to s__ew me - but that doesn't make her a bad mother to Lizzie. I'm not going to try to take Lizzie away from her mother unless it's in Lizzie's best interest - such as if Lori starts being abusive or something like that.

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